AltWeeklies Wire
A Day in Court for Neighbors of Rocky Flatsnew
Opening arguments finally got under way in the class-action suit against the two companies that operated the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant until 1989.
Westword |
Patricia Calhoun |
10-18-2005 |
Environment
A Really Big Shoenew
Colorado's Croc craze is conquering the world. But does it have legs?
Mothers Daynew
Kawabata Makoto, the high priest of Japan's Acid Mothers Temple, says his music is something he hears from the cosmos and re-creates so others might hear it, too.
Westword |
Michael Roberts |
10-12-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Animal Rights and Wrongs at the Greatest Show on Earthnew
The circus is an outdated, primitive, hostile and indefensibly lame custom that our society should have abandoned long ago.
Westword |
Adam Cayton-Holland |
10-12-2005 |
Commentary
Denver's Columbus Day Parade Derided, Defendednew
Various interest groups in Denver argue over whether the annual parade is a celebration of a visionary navigator or a convoy of conquest that inspires community anguish.
Presidential Storm Watchnew
From the safe distance of Colorado Springs, George W. Bush monitored the hurricane hitting the Gulf Coast.
Wanted: More Than a Few Good Men and Womennew
A scandal exposed by a Denver high school student made Army recruiters stand down, but now they're working hard to put more boots on the ground.
Tags: Iraq war veterans, Privacy, a bill sponsored by Representative Mike Honda, a California Democrat, all of Colorado and parts of Nebraska, American Friends Service Committee, Montana and Wyoming, pacifists, Quakers, Religious Society of Friends, Sergeant Rodney Shivers, Student Privacy Protection Act, United States Army Recruiting Battalion Denver
An Army of Anyonenew
Young people need a high school diploma to enlist in the Army -- and a few report finding a recruiter willing to help them create one.
'Every Gangsta Got His Day'new
Brad Braxton knows who shot him; before he goes to a gangster's final destination, he has a choice to make.
Westword |
Luke Turf |
09-27-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Columnist's Report of Threats Raises Questionsnew
Rocky Mountain News columnist Bill Johnson says an anti-abortion protester repeatedly threatened him over a two-year period, but a reader thinks the protester is fictional.
Drift Woodnew
The latest film aspiring to skewer the cruelties of high-school life commits a fatal error: It forgets to side with the students.
Inmates Claim Brutal Treatment After Riot at Private Prisonnew
More than 80 inmates are filing a lawsuit against the Crowley County Correctional Facility, claiming the company let conditions deteriorate before a riot broke out last year, then brutalized men who didn't participate in the uprising.
Westword |
Alan Prendergast |
08-31-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Drinkers Try Out the Malternativesnew
A research service pays young people to try out a major brand geared toward twenty-somethings.
Westword |
Jared Jacang Maher |
08-31-2005 |
Food+Drink
University of Colorado's Public Relations Gaffes Pile Upnew
Since a complete catalogue of CU's stumbles would fill a library, Westword has skimmed off the cream of the crap -- a chronological top-ten list of the university's most memorable PR gaffes since December 2001, when football players and recruits arrived at a party that's still producing headlines.
Tags: Education
Memo: Sidestepping HST's Sendoffnew
The depraved cult of press jackanapery is what took the punch out of gonzo a long time ago. We should be celebrating the seat-of-the-pants outlaw who savaged despots and wrote like Fitzgerald on liquid nitrogen, not theh tragic clown guzzling Cristal with the rest of the press corps in Aspen
Westword |
Gig LeCarp |
08-22-2005 |
Commentary
